In your last paper, you were expected to use solid support from sources to defend your position. In this paper, you will be able to make a creative argument — meaning that the topic should be something meaningful and personal to you. You are going to use sources, but they are going to be used to support your personal feelings and alongside anecdotes from your life.
In 4-6 pages, develop a personal narrative essay that argues something you deeply believe that is a larger issue that is attached to an EVENT or CHALLENGE you’ve had, specifically, in your life or someone very close to you.
For instance, maybe someone had an abortion and believes that the abortion saved their life and that Roe vs. Wade should not have been repealed.
Or maybe as a youth, a friend was a victim of the school-to-prison pipeline and it inhibited their ability to succeed and you want to argue for less punative measures.
I do want you to be clear in communication, but you do not have to use overtly academic language.
The essay should largely be about the experience with good, vivid detail and visceral description of the incident or timeline.
Please include three reliable sources in your argument. The key though, is that you should consider the opinion and integrate it fully into your argument — rather than just pull a quote or a quick paraphrase, you should consider at least 2-3 major points from each source and integrate them into the paper.
To brainstorm, you will create a mood board — since this is a creative argument, I want you to really get creative about how you brainstorm.
Submit the mood board, an outline and the paper — double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font to this dropbox.
The assignment is due on 6/26 at 11:59 p.m.
